Guest lecturer: Prof. Title: Jure Leskovec

Title: Potential Networks, Contagious Communities, and
Understanding Social Network Structure

Tue, Nov 30, 5:10-6pm.



Speaker: Grant Schoenebeck


Abstract:

I’ll show that evidence that digital social networks look
fundamentally different from social networks. Recent results
based on datamining show that digital social networks contain
certain curious characteristics. I’ll show the graph resulting
from spreading a contagion over traditional models for social
networks can capture all these features, even if the social
network model over which the contagion was spread does not
capture any of these features.



This also indicates that using data from digital social
networks may mislead us if we try to use it to directly infer
the structure of social networks. Additionally, we describe a
framework that we call ``potential networks" that may help to
use information from digital networks to infer the structure of
social networks.